Just realized I didn't eat enough today. Help?

It is 12am I just added up my cals for the day and realized I only at about 1200 calories. My burn meter for the day including my excercise says about 2500 calories.

So my question is... On a day when this happens do I eat before bed or just leave it be?

if you're not hungry i would just let it be

as long as it doesn't become a regular thing it should be fine

if i were in that situation where i needed a quick extra 1000 calories [which happens NEVER] i'd be hitting up a drive-thru for a burger and fries and regular coke

My suggestion would be to keep track of your calories throughout the day so you know where you are at..instead of waiting until midnight to add them up only to realize you are way behind on your daily calorie intake. I wouldn't recommend eating fast food at 12am only to make up for your daily calories...just leave it for that day.

Original Post by thin_girl:

if i were in that situation where i needed a quick extra 1000 calories [which happens NEVER] i'd be hitting up a drive-thru for a burger and fries and regular coke

 

 happens more than you'd think when your trying to gain ;)

This happens to me fairly frequently on days that I train, because I don't want to eat before my Muay Thai class and don't get home 'til 10 at night.

IMO, I'm with thin_girl: if you're not hungry, and it doesn't happen that often, don't worry about it.

OTOH, if you are hungry, or if this happens on a regular basis -- eat!  Believe it or not, you still burn calories even when you're asleep -- that's what BMR is all about!  :)  You would burn calories even in a coma, just to keep your body going.  Since the net effect of too many days with drastic shortages is the dreaded 'starvation mode,' eating is better for your weight-loss in the long-run.

I've done the burger-and-fries plan on nights like this, though sometimes downing two days' worth of sodium and grease immediately after my serious hard-core athletic training is a little more irony than I can stomach, LOL.  OTOH, I would be lying if I said being able to eat burgers with impunity isn't part of the reason I normally train so hard :D

Another good option, if you're neither vegan nor lactose-intolerant, is a big class of chocolate milk -- I've been known to throw back a quart of milk before bed after an intense class.  Unless you're lactose intolerant, milk tends to be easy on the stomach -- I find it soothing (unless it's warm; I hate warm milk, but that's another story).

Milk is a good suggestion.  On a side note, I like warm milk, but only if it doesn't get that curdled, skin like layer on top after its been heated.... yuk